Fiddlover Blogs

Not sure what belongs in your violin case? Here’s a checklist of essentials, optional extras, and items to leave out to protect your violin.

Discover Franz Schubert’s life, from a Vienna schoolhouse to 600+ songs, Winterreise, and the Trout Quintet, all written before he died at 31.

Why was the viola once the “outcast” of the orchestra? Explore how Neapolitan opera and undersized violas shaped its overlooked 18th-century reputation.

Learn the life story of Shinichi Suzuki, the educator behind the Suzuki Method — and why his "mother tongue" approach still shapes how children learn violin today.

Fiddlover partnered with creator Gabby Martin to share her experience with the Q033 Beginner Violin. The campaign reached more than one million views, sparked tens of thousands of interactions, and gifted a Q033 violin outfit to a Colorado music teacher serving a low-income community.